Make certain that it is a skeeter before you swat

  • bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    #1278178

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    Is this a mosquito…NO! This is an “INSECT SPY DRONE” already in production. It can be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera, microphone and can land on you, and use it’s needle to take a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. Or it can inject a micro RFID tracking device under your skin. It can land on you, and you take it in your home or it can fly through a window. Funny, don’t you see your window of privacy getting real narrow these days? They are preparing but for what?

    The US military reveals its latest publicly releasable spy drone technology – drones the size of bugs used to fire missiles and track “enemy combatants”..

    Before I continue, notice my headline says “ADMIT” because whenever the military makes something public knowledge the technology is usually decades old. Case in point, the internet was developed in the 60′s. There are plenty of more examples.

    Personally discussions I have with people “in the know” tell me about nano drones that sneak into your house inside of your electrical wires. Anyway, that is all conspiracy. Here are the “facts” that “we know” from the corporate media”.

    War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.

    The base’s indoor flight lab is called the “microaviary,” and for good reason. The drones in development here are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. “We’re looking at how you hide in plain sight,” said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill.

    Half a world away in Afghanistan, Marines marvel at one of the new blimplike spy balloons that float from a tether 15,000 feet above one of the bloodiest outposts of the war, Sangin in Helmand Province. The balloon, called an aerostat, can transmit live video — from as far as 20 miles away — of insurgents planting homemade bombs. “It’s been a game-changer for me,” Capt. Nickoli Johnson said in Sangin this spring. “I want a bunch more put in.”

    From blimps to bugs, an explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars. Predator drones, the Cessna-sized workhorses that have dominated unmanned flight since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, are by now a brand name, known and feared around the world. But far less widely known are the sheer size, variety and audaciousness of a rapidly expanding drone universe, along with the dilemmas that come with it.

    The Pentagon now has some 7,000 aerial drones, compared with fewer than 50 a decade ago. Within the next decade the Air Force anticipates a decrease in manned aircraft but expects its number of “multirole” aerial drones like the Reaper — the ones that spy as well as strike — to nearly quadruple, to 536. Already the Air Force is training more remote pilots, 350 this year alone, than fighter and bomber pilots combined.

    NY Times: US Military Admits To Having Spy Drones As Small As Bugs
    http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/20/ny-times-military-admits-spy-drones-small-bugs-29701/&h=jAQFOvLsP
    The New York Times
    War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/20drones.html?pagewanted=all



    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59944
    #1084816

    That’s how these people are following me.

    Now I need a foil suit and not just a hat!

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    #1084818

    Rumor has it, MN. DNR is trying to purchase 200 of these drones to be used in their battle against the spread of invasive species.
    The moneys gathered from road side check points will be used to fund the purchase.

    Buzz
    Minneapolis MN
    Posts: 1778
    #1084836

    Actually the use of drones for AIS isn’t to far from reality. I heard that the DNR was going to train Beavers to sniff out Zebra Mussels. They are experts on streams and lakes. This isn’t much different then using hogs or dogs to sniff out mushrooms or dogs for drug or bomb detection. When given the “command” beavers will work sections of streams or docks on lakes.

    whiskeysour
    4 miles from Pool 9
    Posts: 693
    #1084843

    I can see Bret using those for shallow water ice fishing. The drone has it’s own hook that pops out and hooks the fish for you. It is programed to only catch large gills and crappies.

    bret_clark
    Sparta, WI
    Posts: 9362
    #1084847

    I’m liking the sounds of that

    Jake_A
    Posts: 569
    #1084922

    New from Marcum 2013?

    Joel Ballweg
    Sauk City, Wisconsin
    Posts: 3295
    #1084926

    Pretty cool stuff to read about.
    Especially if a guy doesn’t spend to much time thinking about all the possible ways governments could misuse this kind of technology.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59944
    #1084979

    The good thing is that the government isn’t interested in me.

    If they are, they are getting paid too much.

    mfreeman451
    Posts: 543
    #1085024

    For real? Do you have a link to go with this?

    Quote:


    Actually the use of drones for AIS isn’t to far from reality. I heard that the DNR was going to train Beavers to sniff out Zebra Mussels. They are experts on streams and lakes. This isn’t much different then using hogs or dogs to sniff out mushrooms or dogs for drug or bomb detection. When given the “command” beavers will work sections of streams or docks on lakes.


    Buzz
    Minneapolis MN
    Posts: 1778
    #1085055

    Gotcha, Beavers! Just think what it could turn into with we had sniffing animals?

    Mike Stephens
    WI.
    Posts: 1722
    #1085058

    Quote:


    Quote:


    Is this a mosquito…NO! This is an “INSECT SPY DRONE” already in production. It can be controlled from a great distance and is equipped with a camera, microphone and can land on you, and use it’s needle to take a DNA sample with the pain of a mosquito bite. Or it can inject a micro RFID tracking device under your skin. It can land on you, and you take it in your home or it can fly through a window. Funny, don’t you see your window of privacy getting real narrow these days? They are preparing but for what?

    The US military reveals its latest publicly releasable spy drone technology – drones the size of bugs used to fire missiles and track “enemy combatants”..

    Before I continue, notice my headline says “ADMIT” because whenever the military makes something public knowledge the technology is usually decades old. Case in point, the internet was developed in the 60′s. There are plenty of more examples.

    Personally discussions I have with people “in the know” tell me about nano drones that sneak into your house inside of your electrical wires. Anyway, that is all conspiracy. Here are the “facts” that “we know” from the corporate media”.

    War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio — Two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.

    The base’s indoor flight lab is called the “microaviary,” and for good reason. The drones in development here are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. “We’re looking at how you hide in plain sight,” said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill.

    Half a world away in Afghanistan, Marines marvel at one of the new blimplike spy balloons that float from a tether 15,000 feet above one of the bloodiest outposts of the war, Sangin in Helmand Province. The balloon, called an aerostat, can transmit live video — from as far as 20 miles away — of insurgents planting homemade bombs. “It’s been a game-changer for me,” Capt. Nickoli Johnson said in Sangin this spring. “I want a bunch more put in.”

    From blimps to bugs, an explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars. Predator drones, the Cessna-sized workhorses that have dominated unmanned flight since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, are by now a brand name, known and feared around the world. But far less widely known are the sheer size, variety and audaciousness of a rapidly expanding drone universe, along with the dilemmas that come with it.

    The Pentagon now has some 7,000 aerial drones, compared with fewer than 50 a decade ago. Within the next decade the Air Force anticipates a decrease in manned aircraft but expects its number of “multirole” aerial drones like the Reaper — the ones that spy as well as strike — to nearly quadruple, to 536. Already the Air Force is training more remote pilots, 350 this year alone, than fighter and bomber pilots combined.

    NY Times: US Military Admits To Having Spy Drones As Small As Bugs
    http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/20/ny-times-military-admits-spy-drones-small-bugs-29701/&h=jAQFOvLsP
    The New York Times
    War Evolves With Drones, Some Tiny as Bugs
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/world/20drones.html?pagewanted=all



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